Personal posts and the diary I have kept since 2002: birthdays, year-in-reviews, milestones, and whatever is on my mind.
My top 20 iPhone apps, in no particular order, sorted by price. The free picks include TweetDeck, Facebook, WordPress, Skype, SG Buses and Wikipanion, while paid favourites cover BeejiveIM, FTP On The Go, Byline and Bejeweled 2.
Rare for me, I skipped the PC Show 2009 opening and only went at 7pm because of work. Compared with IT Show 2009, I didn't really enjoy it; the aisles between booths felt much narrower.
My 2008/2009 Semester 2 results: C+ in Probability and Statistics, A+ in Control, Audit and Security of IS, A in IT and Supply Chain Management. My CAP rose to 3.73, my first ever A+ and A!
The Singapore Food Expo 2009 runs at Singapore Expo Hall 5 from 29th May to 2nd June, 11am to 10pm daily. My mom has taken part since 2003; she has three booths, selling miscellaneous food products and Glico goods.
I started my internship at Sedgwick Richardson Singapore on Tuesday, 12th May 2009. The job is straightforward but not easy: I convert AI and PSD files to HTML, then into WordPress templates, before the site goes live.
My cousin and auntie returned from Japan with lots of Head Porter goods my brother requested, and I got a Black Beauty monogram pouch. My brother has set up headporter.sg to sell Head Porter items online, all guaranteed authentic.
The Fail Whale, designed by Lu Yiying, was made famous by Twitter, which shows it whenever the server is overloaded or down. Zazzle and Spreadshirt are the two official places to buy the Fail Whale t-shirt, and I've ordered mine.
Iluma is one of the newest malls in town, near Bugis MRT between Queen Street and Victoria Street. It's fairly large with five levels and, as far as I can tell, no basement. Tenants include Coffee Bean and Nichii Fashion.
I ordered WordPress For Dummies, 2nd Edition by Lisa from Amazon on 5th April 2009. Amazon estimated delivery by 12th May, but they vastly overestimated, as it landed in my letterbox today, 16th April, far ahead of schedule.
Li Xiang has a surprise for my brother and me for our birthday: she designed an acrylic sheet for each of us, mine reading lesterchan.net and my brother's xeroy with a star. Thank you so much, Penguin!
I turned 25 today, a quarter of a centurion, and this website itself was born on 24th March 2002! I had a simple birthday lunch at Shokudo at Cineleisure before catching Dragonball: Evolution, with tickets at just S$6 each.
I had a sudden urge last night to finish my CV. I'm not sure why, perhaps the stress of job-hunting, hearing how many graduates struggle to find work, and how bad the world economy is, especially in Singapore.
I left for the IT Show 2009 at Suntec City with my brother. I parked at Marina Square to dodge the carpark jam, reaching before 11am with time for a McDonald's breakfast, then headed in to hunt for deals.
My family, my parents, brother and Huimin, were on a tour of Japan from 28th February to 11th March 2009. Now they're back, they brought Li Xiang and me some gifts! Pictures paint a thousand words, so here they are.
Phew, my nervous BlogOut! 2009 presentation is over, and the event was a huge success. Rescheduling moved my slot up to 11.45am. Once on stage, the nerves faded, with Elvin from Intel advising me to look at the audience.
Here are the IT fair dates in Singapore for 2009: IT Show in March, PC Show in June, Comex in September and Sitex in November, all held at Suntec City. Handy for planning gadget purchases around the year.
Got the Deuter AirContact Pro 50 + 15 backpack for S$295 at Carrefour. My brother will use it first for his Japan trip, and I should get to use it at the end of the year if I travel anywhere.
I ordered my olive green WordPress t-shirt from the WordPress Shop, run by Indigo Clothing. Placed on 6th February 2009, it arrived yesterday, the 14th, by airmail, about twelve days later. It cost GBP £16.50, roughly S$35.80 including postage.
Li Xiang baked butter and cornflake cookies for me, and I made her a card on the computer plus a heart-shaped candy from Sticky. We exchanged gifts yesterday since today we were up early for her friend's ROM.
In a blink, this year's Lunar New Year is almost over. Tomorrow is the seventh day, Ren Ri, or everybody's birthday. The celebration usually lasts fifteen days, and honestly it's starting to feel a little repetitive and boring.
It's my second week of school; tutorials begin next week and projects are already rolling in, so it'll get busy soon. That sums up my school life so far. I've also been adding JavaScript to my WordPress plugins lately.
These are the modules I'm taking this coming semester, starting 12th January 2009: Control, Audit and Security of IS, Service Systems, IT and Supply Chain Management, and Probability and Statistics. A solid four-module load to kick off the new term.